September 2, 2025

Talent Smash lands in Stockholm.


Looking to build future-proof teams?

Join us to discuss the future workforce - from skill-based hiring and inclusive leadership to the rise of the superworker: versatile, high-impact talent changing how we define performance in 2025 and beyond.

๐Ÿ’ฅ Epicenter/Elements member? Check the app to claim your free ticket.

Step into VERGE, the new global event series by Epicenter - the house of innovation.

At VERGE, we stand at the tipping point of whatโ€™s next. Designed for those who dare to explore, challenge, and redefine the future, this is where business, technology, and innovation collide.To be on the verge of something is not easy to describe, it's a feeling. And you have to be in the room to fully grasp it. 

See you at Epicenter.

Speakers

Sara Dalsfelt
CMO, Adway

Sara Dalsfelt is the CMO at Adway, turning scrolls into hires and employer brands into magnets. With a background in recruitment marketing and a serious love for social-first thinking, sheโ€™s helped hundreds of companies ditch the spray-and-pray job ads and start attracting quality talent - faster. 

"At Adway, we donโ€™t just advertise jobs, we automate smart, social-first recruiting. Our Social Recruiting Technology targets untapped talent on the worldโ€™s biggest social networks, serves them frictionless mobile apply flows, and syncs quality candidates straight into your ATS. Fully automated. Fully measurable. Fully built for quality of hire. Because todayโ€™s best candidates? Theyโ€™re also todayโ€™s savviest consumers. And we know how to win their attention."

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Henrik Jarleskog
Head of Future of Work, Sodexo

Henrik Jรคrleskog isnโ€™t your typical executive. With a background in global management consulting and Fortune 500 leadership roles, he has worked across boardrooms, AI transformation, and the future of work, all while raising two young children on his own and building his own AI agent team. He co-founded a humanitarian non-profit with zero budget that reached the World Economic Forum and National Geographic in under six months. Henrik is part of the Wallenberg Leadership talent pool, mentored by Tore Bertilsson, IKEA board member, and is an inbound member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciencesโ€™ Business Executive Council. Today, as Head of Future of Work at Sodexo, the worldโ€™s 18th largest employer serving 90 million people every day, Henrik collaborates with Sodexoโ€™s most strategic clients to shape the future of how we work. He doesnโ€™t just talk about change... he lives it. Today, he will share why the most transformative shift we are seeing is not remote or hybrid. It is the rise of the superworker.

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Duyen Jin Nguyen
Head of Sweden, Amby

Duyen Jin Nguyen is Head of Sweden at Amby. She believes recruitment is more than just filling roles โ€” itโ€™s about creating the right match between people, purpose, and potential. With a background in hiring across tech, product, and commercial roles for fast-growing companies, she thrives where strategy meets people. Duyen is also passionate about using AI to simplify hiring and has been testing numerous of tools lately so you don't have to.Amby is an embedded recruitment partner that simplifies hiring for ambitious companies like Simployer, Kahoot!, Whereby, Superside, and reMarkable. With a full-stack, embedded model, Amby helps companies of all sizes scale their hiring with quality, pace, and flexibility โ€” across roles, functions, and markets.

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Adrian McDonald
CEO, Epicenter Group

Adrian is an experienced company builder with a passion for automation, data and tech. 

He's been involved in developing new business models and emerging tech products in many countries - such as ๐™ˆ๐™ž๐™˜๐™ง๐™ค๐™จ๐™ค๐™›๐™ฉ ๐˜ผ๐™™ ๐™€๐™ญ๐™˜๐™๐™–๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™š, ๐™’๐™ž๐™™๐™š๐™จ๐™ฅ๐™–๐™˜๐™š (Europe's fastest growing tech company, 2014), ๐™๐™š๐™จ๐™ช๐™ก๐™ฉ, ๐™€๐™ฅ๐™ž๐™˜๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง and ๐˜ผ๐™™๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ฎ.

This allowed him to coach many Founders + CEOโ€™s of some of the most exciting tech scaleups in the Nordics and also follow through with some tech investments from Stockholm to Silicon Valley. 

As the CEO of Epicenter Group, he's now fully-focused on connecting innovation cities around the world, by empowering and bringing together the next-generation of leaders so, together, we can solve the world's largest problems with technology.

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